Dave Garrett Collection
Dave's GarageKnowing of my interest in die-cast models Dave agreed to let me have the collection. This was what was hidden in the. garage. I hope you enjoy looking through them.
For more information on Dinky and Corgi (as well as other die-cast models) I would highly recommend the website of Nick Jones. It was the source of much of my information.Nick & Debbies's Toy Collection
THE DAVID GARRETT COLLECTION.
DINKY
Dinky Toys Post-War History
The first significant releases from Dinky Toys after production had resumed in the late 1940s were the 40 series of vehicles, which were all British Saloons. These were the opening chapter of the "golden age" of Dinky Toys and represented far greater accuracy than their pre-war counterparts. They became very popular and today are often considered to be the quintessential Dinky Toys models, heralding a new post-war era. The 40 series cars were manufactured from better quality alloy, meaning that the survival rate is higher and although originally sold from trade packs of six, they were re-coloured in two-tone paintwork and renumbered in 1954 becoming some of the first models sold with their own unique box. The series included:
40a Riley Saloon (1947)
40b Triumph 1800 (1948)
40d Austin A40 Devon (1949)
40e Standard Vanguard (1948)
40f Hillman Minx (1951)
40g Morris Oxford (1950)
40h Austin FX3 Taxi (1952)
40j Austin A40 Somerset (1953)
By the early 1950s Dinky Toys had become popular in the United Kingdom. Most of the models were in a scale of approximately 1:48, which blended in with O scale railway sets, but many buses and lorries were scaled down further so that they were around 4 inches long.
In 1954 the Dinky Toys range was reorganized and cars were now sold in individual boxes and there were no series of models differentiated by a letter, each model having its own unique catalogue number.
The Dinky Toys range became more sophisticated throughout the 1950s but due to the lack of any real competition development of the models was perhaps slower than it could have been.
The models are listed by model number and issue date with later issues in brackets.
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CORGI
Corgi Toys was launched in 1956 as a new range of die cast toy model cars by Mettoy Playcraft LTD, the toy car company founded in 1936. These new toy cars were soon a huge hit because at the time they were the only toy cars on the market that included transparent plastic windows, they soon became known as the ones with the windows!
